Gender-specific decision-making in conditions of risk and uncertainty

The article presents the results of a study of the specifics of gender characteristics of the impact of the emotional component on the decision-making process and the role of gender characteristics of subjective risk assessments in decision-making. In modern scientific literature, much attention has been paid to the issues of gender differences in leadership style and in managerial decision-making, however, the problem of rational explanations by men and women of choice in conditions of risk in different situations remains almost unexplored. One of the steps towards the gradual elimination of these gaps is the author's experiments described in the article. Two experiments were conducted: the first experiment tested the hypothesis of different degrees of rationality and emotionality as the basis for decision-making by men and women, the second tested the hypothesis of the difference between men and women in decision-making under conditions of risk in different situations. The data obtained as a result of experimental verification of the hypotheses put forward by the authors was analyzed using mathematical statistics methods. The φ-Fischer criterion (Fischer angular transformation) and the V-Kramer criterion were used. The results of the author's experimental research presented in the article contribute to the development of ideas about gender-specific decision-making in conditions of risk and uncertainty. Based on the results of experiments the characteristics of decision-making by men and women were revealed, the following conclusions were drawn: emotionality and rationality of decision-making in men and women are approximately the same, there are also no significant differences in emotional and rational explanations for men and women. The choice of men and women depends on the type of tasks, and differences in decision-making between men and women are found only in some situations. In assessing their chances of winning, men are more likely to rely on the objective probability given in the conditions of the task, while women are more likely to rely on subjective ideas.